The 1950s: Rebels Without a Cause

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The 1950s: Rebels Without a Cause

Jazz Culturecelebrated urban lifeswing popular in clubs: Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie ParkerDizzy and "the Bird" Parker created bebop: encouraged improvisation but not as successful commerciallyHipstersthe "pre-hippies"inspired by bebop; mainly kept out of societyinterracial, slovenly, drug-usinglived in the moment due to nuclear anxieties about futureYoung Man with a Horn, The Man with the Golden ArmThe Stimulant of MusicPost-American Revolution: slaves gathered together and played in "drum circles" in the Southmusical style synthesized into blues and jazzjazz: urban, happyblues: rural, sadPost-War Maniaseveral million deaths caused by warfare, concentration camps"inevitable" nuclear Holocaust feared by rest of the world and some AmericansThe Birth of the Beats"This Is the Beat Generation." -John Clellon Holmes, 1952San Francisco poetry group included Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti1955: first reading of "Howl", performed in front of SF audience 1957: beats receive mass recognition after City Lights Books (Ferlinghetti) wins censure case regarding "Howl"Jayan HansonChicagoan Hipsters, 1959SourcesThe Fantastic Four (or Three)Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Gregory Corsoliked to ponder size of the universe and discuss what constituted artobserved and sympathized with hipstersall writers: Kerouac and Burroughs novelists, Ginsberg a poetdabbled in Eastern philosophies (Buddhism) and made extensive use of hallucinogens/amphetaminesgot on the wrong side of the law: Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg all arrestedThe Fantastic Four minus Burroughs.Counterculture or Pop Culture?emergence of rock and rollmovies like Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild Onerebellious youth ideas spread all over the world (MAD Magazine)Literary WorksKerouac: The Town and the City (1950), On the Road (1957)Ginsberg: "Paterson" (1949), "Howl" (1957) Burroughs: Junkie (1952), Queer (1953)The Little Boy that "split history in two."Dizzy and the Bird performing "Hot House" in 1951.Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" for the first time.Alfred Neuman on the cover of MAD Magazine in the December 1956 edition."Crying" Sam Collins' Yellow Dog Blues, 1927https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Town_and_the_Cityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_(novel)https://suite.io/tanja-batista/5w8p26xhttps://www.pinterest.com/pin/203154633166975592/http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-and-the-End-of-World-War-II/http://www.onthisdeity.com/7th-october-1955-ginsbergs-first-reading-of-howl/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman